Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

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Gardens Illustrated Magazine

DIG IN • What's new, what's growing and what's going on this month

KITTED OUT • For family fun and games in the summer garden

July plants • As temperatures begin to rise, Asa Gregers-Warg is keeping things cool with delicate pinks, whites and blues, alongside a tall, dark and handsome aeonium and a statuesque fennel

Places to visit • Åsa’s recommendations for places to see seasonal plants at their best

WHAT’S IN A NAME? • If you’ve despaired of why botanists keep changing the names of your favourite plants, columnist Ken Thompson explains the logic behind the taxonomic tinkering

FAYE HOWELLS • As a gardener for the Community Grow project at RHS Garden Bridgewater, Faye wants everyone to grow something

Twice as nice • Designer Sue Townsend has blended two cottage gardens into one with meadow-style planting that drifts dreamily through the different spaces

Creating a wildlife-friendly meadow

Balancing act • For this modern Dutch house, Piet Oudolf has combined richly planted roof gardens with the calm of a micro forest

CROCOSMIA • With their striking sword-like foliage and dazzling flowers, crocosmias bring a bright burst of high-summer colour to the garden

How to grow Crocosmia

Where the wild things are • In rural West Sussex, Chris Moss has created a sustainable, rustic-chic garden that hums with wildlife and shimmers subtly with modern cottage-style planting

HELENA PETTIT • The high-octane karate kid who is shaking up RHS Shows on her life as bouncer, staying calm in a crisis and engaging children and new entrants to gardening

Picture this • Drawing on the wildflowers she loved as a child, Margarida Maia has created a garden in central Portugal that is now an Instagram sensation

Sum of the manse • For this walled garden on the edge of the Cairngorms, designer Jonathan Snow has created a sloping parterre filled with flowers and food

Exotic mix • In his own small Surrey garden, designer Robert Stacewicz has assembled an eclectic mix of exotic plants that are well suited for a changing climate

Design • News, garden design insight and sourcebook

TOTAL IMMERSION • Sara Jane Rothwell has softened the hard landscaping of this sloping plot with rich planting that contrasts with the repeated use of Corten-steel features

Sun shades • Relax and keep cool in the garden with our pick of sun shades

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, the crossword, reader event and Alice Vincent

Other books • Fascinating histories of plants, from those mentioned in the Qur’an to orchids, are among the best of the rest of July’s books.

Crossword

MAKING THE CUT • A cutting garden may be high on her fantasy garden wishlist, but Alice Vincent still finds it hard to cut the flowers from her borders. Could seasonal floristry help to win her round?